EMERGING CLOUD COMPUTING PARADIGM: VISION, RESEARCH CHALLENGES AND DEVELOPMENT TRENDS

Cloud computing has recently emerged as a new paradigm for hosting and delivering utility-oriented IT services to users over the Internet. Cloud computing is lucrative to enterprise owners as it eliminates the requirement for users to plan ahead for resource provisioning, allows organization to initiate from the small and increase resources only when there is a hike in service demand. Cloud computing has emerged as a new technology that will lead the next generation of Internet. It tries to provide optimal and efficient computing through collaboration, agility, availability and scalability. In this paper, the cloud computing paradigm is illustrated in a variety of aspects and certain open challenges of research and recent development trends are being discussed. The aim of this research paper is to provide a comprehensive overview of the cloud computing paradigm, identify its major research challenges and recent development trends taking place in this increasingly important field.